Scottish Executive

Animal Welfare

Mr Mark Ruskell (Mid Scotland and Fife) (Green): To ask the Scottish Executive what action it intends to take to ensure that conditions are improved and enforced on pig farms in Scotland following the report in December 2003 by Advocates for Animals of unacceptable conditions in which pigs were being kept on Scotpigs' farms.

Allan Wilson: The Welfare of Farmed Animals (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2003 introduced a range of new conditions to improve the welfare of pigs. In addition, the State Veterinary Service will continue to monitor conditions on pig farms and appropriate enforcement action will be initiated if contraventions are found.

Animal Welfare

Mr Mark Ruskell (Mid Scotland and Fife) (Green): To ask the Scottish Executive what action it plans to take following Advocates for Animals recent investigation into Scottish pet shops referring to a range of unacceptable practices, including a lack of guidance by local authorities, breaches of pet shop licence conditions and aspects of the pet trade being unregulated.

Allan Wilson: The Pet Animals Act 1951, which is the legislation that governs the licensing and operation of pet shops, is currently under review as part of a wider review of animal welfare legislation. The information provided by Advocates for Animals will be considered as part of that review. Licensing and enforcement is the responsibility of local authorities.

Children and Young People

Fergus Ewing (Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive whether its programme to fund outdoor pursuits for children will be provided all year round.

Peter Peacock: It is for local authorities to determine, in the light of local needs and circumstances, how and when activities supported by the available funding should be provided.

Environment

Alex Johnstone (North East Scotland) (Con): To ask the Scottish Executive how it will address any concerns that research and development into the effective use of small commercial waste oil burners, with particular reference to the use of waste vegetable oil, will cease as a result of the Waste Incineration (Scotland) Regulations 2003.

Allan Wilson: Experimental plants used for research, development and testing to improve the incineration process and which treat less than 50 tonnes of waste per year are classified as "excluded plant" under the Waste Incineration (Scotland) Regulations 2003. These excluded plant do not have to meet the requirements of the regulations and may, therefore, continue to be used for research, development and testing.

Holyrood Project

Fergus Ewing (Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive whether there was any audit exercise in relation to the Holyrood project prior to the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body taking responsibility for the project.

Mr Andy Kerr: Capital expenditure on the Holyrood building project in 1998-99 amounting to £6.7 million by the then Scottish Office was subject to the normal annual audit of the accounts by the Comptroller and Auditor General of the National Audit Office and his staff.

Information Technology

Nora Radcliffe (Gordon) (LD): To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of households currently has access to a broadband internet connection.

Mr Jim Wallace: Around 70% of Scottish households can now access a broadband internet connection. The Executive has therefore achieved its broadband access target and is currently considering measures to help take coverage beyond this figure.

Information Technology

Nora Radcliffe (Gordon) (LD): To ask the Scottish Executive what support the public sector is providing to ensure that broadband internet services are available to households in remote and rural areas.

Mr Jim Wallace: The provision of broadband services to all areas remains a commercial decision for suppliers related to demand.

  However, the Scottish Executive is supporting a range of initiatives to help bring broadband services to remote and rural areas. These include trials of alternative technologies such as wireless and powerline designed to assess the potential to provide broadband to areas where mainstream broadband technologies are not commercially viable.

  Furthermore, the Executive recently launched additional demand-stimulation measures under its £24 million broadband initiative. This activity, which includes a broadband business incentive and broadband marketing, is strengthening the commercial case for broadband provision across all areas of Scotland.

Information Technology

Nora Radcliffe (Gordon) (LD): To ask the Scottish Executive whether it is utilising European structural funds for the development of broadband services.

Mr Jim Wallace: The Scottish Executive is using European structural funds for the development of broadband services in Scotland and continues to assess funding opportunities for projects aimed at further increasing the availability of such services.

  Under the structural fund programmes 2000-06, the Scottish Executive has allocated over £12 million to date towards the development of broadband and related services in Scotland.

Justice

Margaret Mitchell (Central Scotland) (Con): To ask the Scottish Executive how much has been spent by district courts in each of the last six years to cover loss of earnings by Justices of the Peace.

Cathy Jamieson: Under section 17 of the District Courts (Scotland) Act 1975, Justices of the Peace are entitled to receive, where appropriate, financial loss allowance for loss of earnings and travel and subsistence costs where expenditure is necessarily incurred by them in the performance of their duties. Payment of these allowances is made by local authorities and the information requested is not held centrally.

Justice

Pauline McNeill (Glasgow Kelvin) (Lab): To ask the Scottish Executive what the timescale is for considering whether any lessons can be learned from the experience of community courts in the United States of America.

Cathy Jamieson: The Executive is always interested to learn from the experience of other jurisdictions. This is why I am visiting the United States of America next month to see at first hand if there are lessons we can learn for the Scottish criminal justice system, including from the operation of community courts.

Justice

Margaret Mitchell (Central Scotland) (Con): To ask the Scottish Executive how many (a) prosecutions and (b) convictions there have been for accessing and downloading child pornography on the internet in each of the last six years.

Cathy Jamieson: The available information is given in the following table. The figures are for offences under sections 52 and 52A of the Civic Government (Scotland) Act 1982, which cover the possession, distribution and making of indecent material relating to children. Not all such offences will necessarily relate to images obtained from the internet.

  Persons Proceeded Against Under Sections 52 and 52A of the Civic Government (Scotland) Act 19821, 1996-2001

  

 

Year of Sentence


 

1996

1997

1998

1999

2000

2001



Persons proceeded against

10

5

11

11

17

22



Persons with a charge proved

7

4

9

9

15

16



  Note:

  1. Where main offence.

Justice

Margaret Mitchell (Central Scotland) (Con): To ask the Scottish Executive how many (a) prosecutions and (b) convictions there have been for lewd communication with a child through an internet chatroom in each of the last six years.

Cathy Jamieson: There is no specific offence for lewd communication in an internet chatroom. These cases may be covered by other offences such as common law lewd, indecent and libidinous practices, but they cannot be separately identified within the statistics available centrally.

Justice

Margaret Mitchell (Central Scotland) (Con): To ask the Scottish Executive how many (a) prosecutions and (b) convictions there have been for fraud by adults who pretend to be a child for the purpose of securing a meeting with a child or committing, or attempting to commit, a sexual offence in each of the last six years.

Cathy Jamieson: This type of case, which may be covered by offences such as common law fraud or an offence under section 7(1) of the Criminal Law (Consolidation)(Scotland) Act 1995, cannot be separately identified within the statistics available centrally.

Local Government Finance

Dennis Canavan (Falkirk West) (Ind): To ask the Scottish Executive what concessions on taxes and charges it currently makes available to community amateur sports clubs, including concessions on council tax and water charges.

Mr Andy Kerr: Sports clubs which are registered charities are eligible for 80% mandatory rate relief. Local authorities have discretionary powers to top up this relief up to 100% and to grant up to 100% rate relief to sports clubs which do not qualify for mandatory rate relief.

  Qualifying sports clubs whose relief from water charges is being withdrawn may be eligible for the Water Exemption Scheme, which exempts eligible organisations from water charges, and runs until 2006. Other clubs not eligible for the Exemption Scheme may be able to benefit from the Water Hardship Fund which will provide assistance, during the period 1 April 2002 to 31 March 2004.

Planning

Mr Andrew Welsh (Angus) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive when it will reach a decision on the retail development planning application at Westway Retail Park, Arbroath, following the local public inquiry held in October 2003.

Mrs Mary Mulligan: The Scottish ministers are currently awaiting the recommendations from the inquiry reporter on this planning application. When the report becomes available, ministers will consider the findings carefully and every effort will be made to reach an early decision.

Prison Service

Karen Whitefield (Airdrie and Shotts) (Lab): To ask the Scottish Executive when the Scottish Prison Service will fulfil its commitment, made to the Upperton Residents' Association, to repair the seven street lights in Longriggend.

Cathy Jamieson: I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service, to respond. His response is as follows:

  The majority of this work was carried out on 22 December 2003 and is planned to be fully completed by 23 January 2004.

Prison Service

Karen Whitefield (Airdrie and Shotts) (Lab): To ask the Scottish Executive what obligations in respect of roads and lighting maintenance the Scottish Prison Service transferred as part of the sale of land and property at the former HM Prison Longriggend.

Cathy Jamieson: I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service, to respond. His response is as follows:

  A 1/80th share of the maintenance of the private roads and street lighting system within the village of Upperton.

Prison Service

Karen Whitefield (Airdrie and Shotts) (Lab): To ask the Scottish Executive what plans the Scottish Prison Service has to upgrade the sewerage plant at Longriggend to ensure that it is of an acceptable standard for Scottish Water and what the time scale is for any such plans.

Cathy Jamieson: I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service, to respond. His response is as follows:

  Options for upgrading the sewerage plant are still being developed. No time scale has yet been set.

Public Bodies

Sarah Boyack (Edinburgh Central) (Lab): To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to the second supplementary to question S2O-615 by Tavish Scott on 9 October 2003, given that socio-economic factors account for some 50% of the analysis in relation to a decision on a particular relocation, what other factors are considered and how they are weighted.

Tavish Scott: Relocation decisions are based on a range of factors. The organisation carrying out the review is invited to forward material bearing on key location criteria; socio-economic considerations; business efficiency (including the position of existing staff); sustainable transport links; accessibility and property availability/suitability.

  For relocation reviews, the Executive recommends that a weighting of 50% is allocated to socio-economic factors which shows a measure of its determination to assist disadvantaged areas in Scotland. The remaining assessment criteria, however, are weighted by each organisation to reflect their own strategic requirements.

Public Bodies

Sarah Boyack (Edinburgh Central) (Lab): To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to the second supplementary to question S2O-615 by Tavish Scott on 9 October 2003, what criteria it uses when considering relocation proposals.

Tavish Scott: In taking forward our relocation policy we consider the objective of our policy and range of measurable factors relating to the organisation concerned.

  The organisation carrying out the review is invited to forward material bearing on key location criteria; socio-economic considerations; business efficiency (including the position of existing staff); sustainable transport links; accessibility and property availability/suitability.

Public Private Partnerships

Fergus Ewing (Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive whether, in relation to the East Lothian public private partnership schools project contract with Ballast plc, there was any provision of a performance bond, parent company guarantee or other measure designed to protect against the insolvency or non-performance of the contractor.

Mr Andy Kerr: It is normal in many public private partnership situations to have measures of the kind you mention. These are generally required by the consortium lenders. These protect the lenders, and ultimately the public sector by assisting the consortium to provide continuity of service in the event of contractor default. As regards the East Lothian situation, details of the consortium and its funding arrangements are matters for the council to consider in the first instance.

Schools

Ms Rosemary Byrne (South of Scotland) (SSP): To ask the Scottish Executive what arrangements will be put in place to ensure that pupils travelling from Hurlford, Mauchline, Catrine, Auckinleck and Cumnock to the proposed amalgamated St Joseph's and St Conval's secondary school site have access to all out-of-school activities.

Ms Rosemary Byrne (South of Scotland) (SSP): To ask the Scottish Executive what arrangements will be put in place to ensure the safety of pupils travelling from Hurlford, Mauchline, Catrine, Auckinleck and Cumnock to the proposed amalgamated St Joseph's and St Conval's secondary school site.

Peter Peacock: These are matters for decision by East Ayrshire Council.

Scottish Executive Departments

Murdo Fraser (Mid Scotland and Fife) (Con): To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-30714 by Mr Andy Kerr on 11 November 2002, how many people have been employed in its Environment and Rural Affairs Department in 2002 and in 2003.

Mr Andy Kerr: The following table shows the number of staff (headcount) and the number of full-time equivalent staff in post in the Scottish Executive Environment and Rural Affairs Department as at the date given.

  Number of Staff in the Scottish Executive Environment and Rural Affairs Department

  




Headcount

Full-time Equivalent



Year

Permanent

Casual

Permanent

Casual



1 April 2002

 1,101 

 102 

 1,074.1 

99



1 April 2003

 1,116 

 66 

 1,086.1 

65



31 December 2003

 1,113 

 65 

 1,082.1 

64

Scottish Executive Publications

Jim Mather (Highlands and Islands) (SNP): To ask the Scottish Executive what the cost has been of compiling, writing, publishing and distributing the Government Expenditure and Revenues in Scotland report in each year that the report has been published.

Mr Andy Kerr: The printing and distribution costs for Government Expenditure and Revenues in Scotland (GERS) 2001-02 were £4,432. There are no estimates available of the costs of compiling, writing and editing GERS  by staff in the Executive and other UK Departments.

  For previous years, there is no comprehensive data available. For GERS 1999-2000, total costs of printing, publishing and distributing were estimated at £6,200. This figure excludes costs for writing and editing.

  Since GERS 2000-01, the Executive provides camera-ready files to the printer, which need little additional formatting. This reduced total costs by about £2,000 a year.

Tourism

Mr Brian Monteith (Mid Scotland and Fife) (Con): To ask the Scottish Executive what funding has been made available for the development of an advertising slogan to promote Scotland abroad.

Mr Andy Kerr: As detailed in evidence recently submitted to the European and External Relations Committee, the Executive is looking at all aspects of its work to promote Scotland's interests overseas. Part of this work involves ensuring that the public sector's overseas marketing activities are coherent and effective. We have therefore commissioned research on overseas views of different marketing approaches. The exact level of funding required will not be known until further work has been carried out.

Waste Management

Ms Rosemary Byrne (South of Scotland) (SSP): To ask the Scottish Executive what the current planning regulations are in respect of the disposal of human sewage.

Mrs Mary Mulligan: The extent to which planning legislation applies to the disposal of human sewage depends on the exact nature of the proposal and whether it involves "development" as defined in section 26 of the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1997.

Waste Management

Ms Rosemary Byrne (South of Scotland) (SSP): To ask the Scottish Executive what the current planning regulations are in respect of the transfer of human sewage.

Mrs Mary Mulligan: The transporting of goods or materials is not normally a matter for the planning system. The extent to which planning legislation applies to the transfer of human sewage depends on the exact nature of the proposal and whether it involves "development" as defined in section 26 of the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1997.

Waste Management

Alex Johnstone (North East Scotland) (Con): To ask the Scottish Executive why, under the Waste Incineration (Scotland) Regulations 2003, small waste oil burners of the same size can be used to heat homes but not offices or workshops.

Allan Wilson: Following comprehensive consultation with industry, it was decided to transpose the Waste Incineration Directive through the existing pollution prevention and control (PPC) regime. The Waste Incineration (Scotland) Regulations 2003 implement the directive by amending the Pollution Prevention and Control (Scotland) Regulations 2000. The PPC regime does not extend to domestic activities and, consequently, small waste oil burners used to heat homes do not require to comply with the Waste Incineration (Scotland) Regulations.

Water Charges

Dr Elaine Murray (Dumfries) (Lab): To ask the Scottish Executive what consideration it is giving to the recommendations contained in the report of the Water Customer Consultation Panels, Affordability of Water and Sewerage Charges for Low Income Households , published in December 2003.

Allan Wilson: The Executive has considered the recommendations contained in the panels' report on affordability. The Executive is committed to securing substantial efficiency savings at Scottish Water as the principal means of easing pressure on water and sewerage charges for all customers, including those in low income and vulnerable households. In addition, particular assistance to low income households is provided through the link between water charges and the council tax banding and discount arrangements. In terms of the specific recommendations in the report:

  The Executive is assessing the impact that ending the current Water and Sewerage Charges Reduction Scheme will have in light of harmonisation of charges. A decision on whether any further action is required will be made in light of this assessment.

  Income support is a reserved matter for the UK Government.

  Local authorities are currently responsible for collecting charges for domestic customers. This is an efficient and customer friendly way of charging. It enables customers to pay for two services with one bill; and it avoids them having to meet, through higher water bills, the costs that otherwise would arise from having to establish and maintain a separate billing system for water and sewerage services.

  The practice of local authorities collecting water and sewerage charges is also the basis of the crucial link between charges and the council tax banding and discount arrangements. Giving Scottish Water responsibility to collect charges would not only result in increased bills for customers, it would undermine these arrangements to the detriment of low income and vulnerable households.

  The Executive has no plans of directing Scottish Water to pursue a policy of household metering.

Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body

Parliament Visitor Numbers

Stewart Stevenson (Banff and Buchan) (SNP): To ask the Presiding Officer how many visitors there were in the public gallery during First Minister's Question Time in the last two years.

Mr Andrew Welsh (on behalf of the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body): The information requested is given below. As access and egress of visitors is a continuous process, it is not possible to identify total numbers in the public galleries at any one time. Information given in relation to First Minister's Question Time covers those visitors who accessed the public galleries between 14.00 and 16.30 prior to 11 September 2003 and from 09.00 to 12.30 thereafter.

  


1 January 2002 – 31 December 2002

1 January 2003 – 31 December 2003


 

14.00-16.30
 

09.00-12.30

14.00-16.30



1/1 – 4/1 -Recess

1/1 – 3/1 - Recess



10/01/02

252

09/01/03
 

200



17/01/02

274

16/01/03
 

319



24/01/02

281

23/01/03
 

315



31/01/02

322

30/01/03
 

268



07/02/02

275

06/02/03
 

266



14/02/02

355

13/02/03
 

402



28/02/02

434

20/02/03
 

347



18/2 – 22/2 -Recess

27/02/03
 

312



07/03/02

378

06/03/03
 

349



14/03/02

463

13/03/03
 

471



21/03/02

389

20/03/03
 

385



28/03/02

322

27/03/03
 

400



1/4 – 12/4 - Recess

31/3 – 30/6 – Dissolution/Election



18/04/02

388

05/06/03
 

307



25/04/02

356

12/06/03
 

323



02/05/02

289

19/06/03
 

460



09/05/02

333

26/06/03
 

366



16/05/02

402

30/6 – 29/8 - Recess



13/06/02

325

04/09/03
 

219



20/06/02

410

11/09/03

252
 



27/06/02

419

18/09/03

446
 



20/5 – 7/6 – Aberdeen Sitting

25/09/03

260
 



05/09/03

278

02/10/03

222
 



12/09/02

374

09/10/03

324
 



19/09/02

217

13/10 – 24/10 - Recess



26/09/02

253

30/10/03

457
 



03/10/02

260

06/11/03

319
 



10/10/02

274

13/11/03

296
 



1/7 – 30/8 - Recess

20/11/03

366
 



31/10/02

358

27/11/03

246
 



07/11/02

300

04/12/03

227
 



14/11/02

435

11/12/03

385
 



21/11/02

423

18/12/03

249
 



28/11/02

291

22/12 – 31/12 -Recess



05/12/02

376

Total

4,049

5,709



12/12/02

387

Average

311

336



19/12/02

188

1 January 2004 – 8 January 2004



23/12 – 31/12 - Recess
 

09.00-12.30

14.00-16.30


 
 

1/1/ - 2/1 -Recess


 
 

08/01/04

109
 



Total

11,081

Total

109
 



Average

342

Average

109

Parliament Visitor Numbers

Stewart Stevenson (Banff and Buchan) (SNP): To ask the Presiding Officer how many visitors there were in the public gallery during First Minister's Question Time on each occasion since it was timetabled to commence at noon, compared with the equivalent day (a) one year and (b) two years previously.

Mr Andrew Welsh (on behalf of the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body): The information requested is given below. As access and egress of visitors is a continuous process, it is not possible to identify the total numbers in the public galleries at any one time. The information at Table A therefore covers the number of visitors who accessed the public galleries between 09.00 and 12.30 following the move of First Minister's Question Time to 12.00 on 11 September 2003. Table B shows the number of visitors who accessed the public galleries from 14.00 to 16.30 (which covered First Minister's Question Time) for the same calendar period for each of the two previous years.

  Table A

  


Date
09.00
12.30



11/09/03

252



18/09/03

446



25/09/03

260



02/10/03

222



09/10/03

324



13/10 – 24/10 Recess



30/10/03

457



06/11/03

319



13/11/03

296



20/11/03

366



27/11/03

246



04/12/03

227



11/12/03

385



18/12/03

249



22/12 – 2/1/04 Recess



08/01/04

109



Total

4,158



Average

297



  Table B

  


Date
14.00
16.30

Date
14.00
16.30



12/09/02

374

13/09/01

454



19/09/02

217

20/09/01

478



26/09/02

253

27/09/01

390



03/10/02

260

04/10/01

437



10/10/02

274

8/10 – 19/10 Recess



14/10 – 25/10 Recess

25/10/01

415



31/10/02

358

01/11/01

448



07/11/02

300

08/11/01

386



14/11/02

435

15/11/01

270



21/11/02

423

22/11/01

328



28/11/02

291

29/11/01

447



05/12/02

376

06/12/01

471



12/12/02

387

13/12/01

282



19/12/02

188

20/12/01

188



23/12 – 3/1/03 Recess

24/12 – 4/1/02 Recess



09/01/03

200

10/01/02

252



Total

4,336

Total

5,246



Average

309

Average

375

Parliament Visitor Numbers

Stewart Stevenson (Banff and Buchan) (SNP): To ask the Presiding Officer how many visitors there were in the public gallery during Question Time in the last two years.

Mr Andrew Welsh (on behalf of the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body): The information requested is given below. As access and egress of visitors is a continuous process, it is not possible to identify total numbers in the public galleries at any one time. Information given in relation to Question Time covers those visitors who accessed the public galleries between 14.00 and 16.30.

  


1 January 2002 – 31 December 2002

1 January 2003 – 31 December 2003


 

14.00-16.30
 

14.00-16.30



1/1 – 4/1 -Recess

1/1 – 3/1 - Recess



10/01/02

252

09/01/03

200



17/01/02

274

16/01/03

319



24/01/02

281

23/01/03

315



31/01/02

322

30/01/03

268



07/02/02

275

06/02/03

266



14/02/02

355

13/02/03

402



28/02/02

434

20/02/03

347



18/2 – 22/2 -Recess

27/02/03

312



07/03/02

378

06/03/03

349



14/03/02

463

13/03/03

471



21/03/02

389

20/03/03

385



28/03/02

322

27/03/03

400



1/4 – 12/4 - Recess

31/3 – 30/6 – Dissolution/Election



18/04/02

388

05/06/03

307



25/04/02

356

12/06/03

323



02/05/02

289

19/06/03

460



09/05/02

333

26/06/03

366



16/05/02

402

30/6 – 29/8 - Recess



13/06/02

325

04/09/03

219



20/06/02

410

11/09/03

338



27/06/02

419

18/09/03

194



20/5 – 7/6 – Aberdeen Sitting

25/09/03

279



05/09/03

278

02/10/03

204



12/09/02

374

09/10/03

203



19/09/02

217

13/10 – 24/10 – Recess



26/09/02

253

30/10/03

208



03/10/02

260

06/11/03

213



10/10/02

274

13/11/03

283



1/7 – 30/8 - Recess

20/11/03

248



31/10/02

358

27/11/03

220



07/11/02

300

04/12/03

159



14/11/02

435

11/12/03

140



21/11/02

423

18/12/03

42



28/11/02

291

22/12 – 31/12 - Recess 



05/12/02

376

Total

8,440



12/12/02

387

Average

281



19/12/02

188

1 January 2004 – 8 January 2004



23/12 – 31/12 - Recess
 

14.00-16.30


 
 

1/1 – 2/1- Recess


 
 

08/01/04

88



Total

11,081

Total

88



Average

342

Average

88

Parliament Visitor Numbers

Stewart Stevenson (Banff and Buchan) (SNP): To ask the Presiding Officer  how many visitors there were in the public gallery during Question Time on each occasion since First Minister's Question Time was timetabled to commence at noon, compared with the equivalent day (a) one year and (b) two years previously.

Mr Andrew Welsh (on behalf of the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body): The information requested is given below. As access and egress of visitors is a continuous process it is not possible to identify the total numbers in the public galleries at any one time. The information at Table A therefore covers the number of visitors who accessed the public galleries between 14.00 and 16.30 (which covers Question Time) following the move of First Minister's Question Time to 12.00 on 11 September 2003. Table B shows the number of visitors who accessed the public galleries from 14.00 to 16.30 for the same calendar period for each of the two previous years.

  Table A

  


Date
14.00
16.30



11/09/03

338



18/09/03

194



25/09/03

279



02/10/03

204



09/10/03

203



13/10 – 24/10 Recess



30/10/03

208



06/11/03

213



13/11/03

283



20/11/03

248



27/11/03

220



04/12/03

159



11/12/03

140



18/12/03

42



22/12 – 2/1/04 Recess



08/01/04

88



Total

2,819



Average

201



  Table B

  


Date
14.00
16.30

Date
14.00
16.30



12/09/02

374

13/09/01

454



19/09/02

217

20/09/01

478



26/09/02

253

27/09/01

390



03/10/02

260

04/10/01

437



10/10/02

274

8/10 – 19/10 Recess



14/10 – 25/10 Recess

25/10/01

415



31/10/02

358

01/11/01

448



07/11/02

300

08/11/01

386



14/11/02

435

15/11/01

270



21/11/02

423

22/11/01

328



28/11/02

291

29/11/01

447



05/12/02

376

06/12/01

471



12/12/02

387

13/12/01

282



19/12/02

188

20/12/01

188



23/12 – 3/1/03 Recess

24/12 – 4/1/02 Recess



09/01/03

200

10/01/02

252



Total

4,336

Total

5,246



Average

309

Average

375